Gerhard Müller-Schwefe

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Gerhard Müller-Schwefe (born April 23, 1914 in Bochum , † after April 23, 2010 in Tübingen ) was a German Anglicist .

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Gerhard Müller-Schwefe studied German , English , theology and philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1938 under Gustav Bebermeyer in Tübingen. After military service and imprisonment, from 1950 he was a research assistant at the English Department of the University of Tübingen. In 1954 he received his habilitation in English Philology . After a short time as a lecturer at the English Department of the University of Göttingen , he was appointed to the chair for English Philology at the University of Tübingen in 1956 as the successor to Karl August Weber , which he held until his retirement in 1980. From 1962 to 1963 he was visiting professor at the State University of Iowa .

The main research interests of Müller-Schwefe were the literature of the Shakespeare period and the Victorian era , the implementation of literature in other media such as e . B. in the film as well as the German image of England.

His brother was the Protestant theologian Hans-Rudolf Müller-Schwefe (1910–1986).

Works (selection)

  • The ride. His position in German customs , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1941 (dissertation, author's name here: Gerhard Müller).
  • Changes in the Shakespeare Image in the 20th Century. In: Die neueren Sprachen, NF 3 (1954), pp. 433-445.
  • Matthew Arnold's personal image of man in poetic design , Niemeyer, Tübingen 1955 (Anglia book series, volume 7) (habilitation thesis).
  • Introduction to the study of English philology. With bibliography , Niemeyer, Tübingen 1962 (2nd edition 1968).
  • (as ed.): Shakespeare. His world - our world; Lecture series of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tübingen on the 400th birthday of William Shakespeare , Niemeyer, Tübingen 1964.
  • Introduction to poem interpretation. Key to English poetry , Lensing, Dortmund 1969.
  • Romeo and Juliet in the language of the present. Rudolf Schaller on his 80th birthday . In: Shakespeare-Jahrbuch, vol. 1971, pp. 129–148.
  • Proverbs as a translation problem. Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" . In: Die neueeren Sprachen, Volume 71 (1972), pp. 341-351.
  • Feature film and television play in college and school. A contribution to the reorientation of literature studies . In: Literature in Science and Education, Volume 6 (1973), pp. 52–70.
  • William Shakespeare. World - Work - Effect , de Gruyter, Berlin 1978 (Göschen Collection, Volume 2208), ISBN 3-11-007545-8 .
  • Corpus Hamleticum. Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Changing Media , Francke, Tübingen 1987, ISBN 3-7720-1778-9 .
  • Shakespeare parodies in German-speaking countries. Karl Meisls Othellerl, The Moor of Vienna . In: Yearbook German Shakespeare Society West, year 1989, pp. 265–290.
  • Hamleta . In: Literature in Science and Education, Vol. 23 (1990), pp. 207–220.
  • Shakespeare in the madhouse. German-language Shakespeare parodies from two centuries , Francke, Tübingen 1990, ISBN 3-7720-1851-3 .
  • Picture or mirror? About the British image of Germany . In: Hans Filbinger u. a. (Ed.): Identity and future of the Germans. Klaus Hornung on his 65th birthday , Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1992 (European Forum, Volume 8), pp. 329–347, ISBN 3-631-44939-9 .
  • What did they do with Shakespeare! Other old and new German-language Shakespeare parodies , Francke, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-7720-1946-3 .
  • From language master to professor. The history of the English seminar at the University of Tübingen; From the beginning (1735) to the present , Attempto-Verlag, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89308-388-6 .
  • Germans experience England. Images of England by Germans in the 19th century , Narr, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8233-6326-2 .

swell

  • Christoph Reinfandt : One last generalist. Anglist Gerhard Müller-Schwefe died at the age of 96 . In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated May 8, 2010.
  • Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar online .
  • Sabine Besenfelder: "Science Necessary for the State". The Tübinger Volkskunde in the 1930s and 1940s , Tübinger Vereinigung für Volkskunde, Tübingen 2002 (Investigations, Volume 94), pp. 290–294, ISBN 3-932512-17-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ * April 23, 1914 Müller-Schwefe, Gerhard (1914-2010) in the memorial calendar archive of the University of Tübingen, ub-archiv.uni-tuebingen.de, accessed on October 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Christoph Reinfandt : One last generalist , uni-tuebingen.de, accessed on October 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Schwefe, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Anglist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH after April 23, 2010
Place of death Tübingen